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Peddler And His Wife

  • Peddler And His Wife .

    On October 10, 1896, Buford Overton was hanged in Harlan County -- the + last public execution in Kentucky -- for the robbery and murder of Gus and Julia Loeb, a pair of itinerant peddlers. Shepard, of nearby Jenkins KY, recorded one of the few surviving versions of the local song about the murder.

    Hayes Shepard, vocal, banjo.

    Knoxville TN 3/29/30 Vocalion 5450

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